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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on average, US residents can expect to live to about 78 year of age, which is an all-time high. Studies …

Millennials, the generation born between 1980 and the mid-1990s, are not getting a fair deal economically and they’re mad as hell. Interestingly, the problem is not limited to the United …

Although physical gold, actual, touchable coins and bullion, is perhaps the oldest and most universally respected form of wealth, even today, a long-standing modern argument against it has been that …

China seems so far away, practically the other side of the world. As to the impact it has on our economy, it might be as near as Canada. In fact, …

One in four. That’s how many Americans are one accident, one illness or one bit of financial bad luck away from disaster. That bad news comes in spite of an …

As the old joke goes: Economists accurately predicted nine of the last five recessions. In other words, it’s always easier to see the downside in the market. Traditionally, it’s wise to …

The plunging price of oil since June 2014 has led to a corresponding drop in the cost of gas, to the delight of most individual consumers. Per the conventional wisdom, …

If you’ve ever lived in Texas, you get used to the same repetitious weather forecast in the summer. Hot, continued hot, followed by a warming trend toward the end of …

According to recent surveys, sixty four percent of Americans don’t have a thousand dollars in savings for emergencies. To cover that debt two-thirds of America would have to either borrow …

The view of housing most people carry around with them has its roots in the 1950s. In those days housing was frequently collocated with jobs and factories that no longer …